Is the United States
of America health care system better than Canada’s? I say no, with there being
up to millions of people in the America living without health care and lots of
others not happy with their health care services. I do believe that we need
that we need a change in the health care system and it needs to be more like
Canada. Canada’s health care system is a group of socialized health insurance
plans that provide coverage to all Canadian citizens. It is publicly funded and
administered on a provincial or territorial basis, within guide lines set by
the federal government. In Canada instead of paying insurance premiums to
different insurance companies, the government is only the insurer. It is
against the law some areas in Canada to pay out of pocket to receive better
service. The government is then able to make sure that wealthy people don’t get
better services than others.
The next question is
should America adopt Canada’s health care system? Most people feel that if we
adopt Canada’s health care system the quality of health care services will go
down. People other than doctors fear that if doctors are told what to charge
patients then the physicians will not compete for services, and they will stop
giving their overall best care so they receive the most money. And maybe the
health care system will try and compete government ran programs but that’s if the
government pays for health care. They say another reason most Americans don’t want
to adopt Canada’s health care system is that health services might need to be
limited to stay within budget. Canada’s government
limits its health services by cutting out the high costing experimental
procedures.
With the way the
health care system is set up in the United States most Americans are insured by
their employer and that’s if they have a job. Those that do receive insurance
from their employer most of the time do not receive good health care services
from the employer. So they have to settle with what they have until something
else comes along. Some employer’s health insurance is so crappy their insurance
only pays for half of it and they expect you to pay the other half and for
those already living in poverty or middle class workers can’t afford to pay it.
For example if someone needs a heart replacement and the cost the services are
ranging from 30 to 40,000 dollars where does the insurance company expect them to get this type of money from. So how do you
guys feel about this………
I agree with you. I think that America should adopt Canada's health care system. It would greatly benefit America as a whole. Americans are too dependent upon basic necessities like health care. If the government ran the health care system then operations that cost thousands of dollars would be able to go down in cost because the hospitals would not be allowed to charge however much they wanted. I think overall Canada's health care system would benefit America greatly.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you aswell. Most everyone's arguments for other countries having free healthcare and it not working in America is because those are small countries and America is too large with too many people. But, Canada shows you this is not really the case, they might not have as much people but they are proof that it can work on a larger scale. Their doctors still make a comfortable wage and their healthcare is pretty reasonable as far as quality goes. I think the US should be open to a trial run of Canadas system. That will probably never happen though..
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